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Islands like Iona or Lindisfarne are renowned the world over as holy places of Great Britain. But there are other, lesser known, “holy isles” there, and one of them is Caldey Island in Wales, which is home to a Cistercian monastery and has had a monastic presence for over 1000 years.

This lovely 35-minute video provides deeply contemplative footage filmed on Caldey, with narration derived from prayers and meditations from The Book of Silent Prayer. It is both a prayerful and deeply meditative journey into the beauty of nature in this holy place.

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Notice how sharp is the hearing and the sense of touch of a blind man. He has lost his faculty of seeing and this has forced him to develop his other faculties of perception. Something similar happens in the mystical world. If we could go mentally blind, so to speak, if we could put a bandage over our mind while we are communicating with God, we would be forced to develop some other faculty for communicating with him—that faculty which, according to a number of mystics, is already straining to move out to him anyway if it were given a chance to develop: the Heart. Anthony de Mello S.J.